All my students entering the Washington Paper Wrapping Paper Contest

4th graders working on entries for Artists in Bloom Poster Competition

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And the winner to the Teacher/Staff Costume Costume Contest is.....

DRUMROLL......

Ms. Cresswell!!

she wins $35!!

Congrats Ms. Cresswell!

Vote for your FAVORITE Teacher in Halloween Costume

Hey all! At Murch we had a Staff Halloween Costume Contest....please vote for your favorite by emailing me at Miriam.Cutelis@yahoo.com....simply write the teacher's name on the subject line and click send. One one vote per person please. The winner gets $35. Description and names of teachers are directly below each photo. Thanks to all the teachers who participated. Winner will be announced Thursday!

Dan Hayden-Dalton Academy Warbler (Back up singer)

Ms. Lisa- Cowgirl

Rosie Goudas- American Indian

Jasmin Coleman- Butterfly

Aruni Hettipola, Pirate

Mr. C- Iron Chef

Wendy Cresswell- Miss Nelson from 'Miss Nelson is Missing'

OCT 31 DEADLINE: The National Geographic International Photography Contest for Kids - Winner gets a trip to Costa Rica

WHAT: The National Geographic International Photography Contest for Kids invites children to enter their photographs in four categories: animals, people, scenery, and humor. Maximum award: a trip to Costa Rica for the Grand Prize winner and up to three of his/her immediate family members.

ELIGIBILITY: legal residents of the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) between the ages of 6 and 14 on October 31, 2011.
DEADLINE: October 31, 2011. Click on link below for more details.
MORE INFORMATION: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/activities/contests/photo-contest/

Garden Photo Contest Deadline fast approaching.....please consider entering

click here to go to the site. 

I copied and pasted the info from the site below:

Photo Sharing

A lot happens during School Garden Week, and we want you to share all of
the amazing activities and events that you take part in! What captures your
attention in your school garden? Maybe it’s the insects buzzing around the butterfly
garden, or your veggie garden in full production, or a group of your friends building a compost bin or planting winter cover crops. Whatever it is, please snap a picture of what you or others are doing during School Garden Week, and share it with us.

This year there are two ways you can share your photos: Participate in the Photo Contest, or contribute to the Photo Journal.

Photo Contest — Student Photographs Only

Categories
One winning photo from each group will be chosen.

Category I: Kindergarten-2nd Grade
Category II: 3rd-5th Grade
Category III: 6th-8th Grade
Category IV: 9th-12th Grade

Follow these three easy steps that could lead you to fabulous prizes!

1. Take a photo
• Students may submit up to 5 photographs focusing on flowers, plants or gardens
• Photos must be taken by digital cameras and submitted in .jpeg format of at least 300 dpi
2. Submit your photo via email
• Subject line: photo title and category (example: “Buzzing Bees, II”)
• Email body: student name, teacher/contact, category, school name and description
• Email submissions to photos@dcschoolgardenweek.org
• View your entries on the Flickr page.
3. Win!

Photo submission deadline is September 29th at 5 p.m. A panel of judges will
select the winners from each category and an announcement will be made at the closing event on Friday, September 30, 2011. Teachers with students who submit photos are encouraged to attend this event. Visit our Events page for details. Prizes will be delivered to each winner the following week.

Prizes
Each winner will receive:

• An underwater digital camera
• Lunch for his or her class from Chipotle
• A framed 8×10 print of the winning photograph
• Photo immortalized on the DC Schoolyard Greening and the DC School Garden Weekwebsites

Get Inspired! Check out some of last year’s winners

Get your cameras ready k-5th!!! School Garden Photo Contest

Lisa Burke, a Murch mom and Murch Garden Leaders posted a new message on the digest

and I thought I'd pass along this message:

K-12 School Garden Photo Contest

DC School Garden Week is Sept. 26 to Oct. 1. There will be Murch events related to Garden Week. In the mean time, get your cameras ready and come to Murch!! For new families, the garden is on the higher part of the playground, way in the back, by the fence.

School Garden Photo Contest!

In celebration of School Garden Week 2011, D.C. Schoolyard Greening and community partners are sponsoring the 5th annual student photo contest. Any D.C. K-12 student may submit a garden-related photograph to be judged by the following panel of garden and photography experts:

Kathy Jentz – Editor/Publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine

Winning entries will be eligible for prizes and will be on display during School Garden Week 2011 and online.

Check back for the 2011 entry form.

See last year’s winners here.

Here is a link: http://www.dcschoolyardgreening.org/dcschoolgardenweek.html

Congratulations ARTISTS....your work will be on display at The Department of Education

I entered various student art pieces for the DCPS Department of Education Art Show last month and we have 7 Murch winners!!! I am so proud! Murch has more work in the show than any other school. Each winner will be getting an invitation to the ribbon cutting ceremony which will take place on January 26th at 11am at 400 Maryland Ave SW. The work will be displayed at the Department through February. Congrats winners!!!

Winners are:

Leoniya Aksyonov

Connor Yu

Langley Custer

Abubaker Uqdah

Chau Bach

Julia Ansberger

John Keating

And yet another ART contest for our little artists!!! (You can win $1000 dollars)

I will not be collecting these entries at school, but if you are interested in helping your child enter this contest please keep reading.

Not everyone is into art contests. This post is for those who are:

Play With Your Pears Kids' Art Contest

Win a $1,000 Gift Certificate From SmileMaker's® , Inc.

Kids 5-18—Here's your chance to play with your food and win big. The Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service is sponsoring a contest to encourage kids to "Play With Your Pears" by decorating a canned pear (or downloadable pear outline) for a chance to win a $1,000 SmileMaker's, Inc. gift certificate for art and educational supplies. See the contest website for full details.

http://eatcannedpea rs.com/playwithy ourpears/

The Play With Your Pears kids' art contest is sponsored by Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service and runs from October 1, 2010 through December 15, 2010.

Open to legal residents of the United States and District of Columbia, entrants must be between 5-12 and 13-18 years of age in their state of residence at the date of entry. Void where prohibited. (Odds of winning depend on number of entries.? Is this statement necessary?) We respect the privacy of minors and operate this contest in compliance with COPPA rules and regulations. All entries from minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian's approval. See full rules and regulations.

Grand Prize: Two $1,000 SmileMakers, Inc., Gift Certificates: one gift certificate for each age category (5-12 and 13-18). See official rules for complete prize details.

No purchase necessary.

Official rules at http://eatcannedpea rs.com/playwithy ourpears/ official- rules/

Pacific Northwest Canned Pearsin a $1000 certificate for art and school supplies fromp Smilemakers, Inc
Cynthia Traina
cynthia@trainapr. com
415/775-3330
m: 415/310-1442

DCPS Food Art Contest....All students can apply (deadline November 20th)

Assignment:

Create a flat artwork on paper from home that includes fruit and vegetables using any medium. Place your name, teacher's name, grade and age in the back of the work and drop off in the classroom.

In Depth Information for Parents:

Over the past five years, the Zenith Community Arts Foundation’s (ZCAF) annual Food Glorious Food program has helped support the Capital Area Food Bank to feed the hungry in our community. ZCAF would like to invite Murch school and other DCP Schools to participate in our first Food Glorious School Food Art Contest to support and promote our Sustainable theme. We invite your students to produce a work of art made with fruits & vegetables, we will encourage your students to have creative fun and think healthy. The winning student artist/s will have their art work turned into a painted mural at their school. Any student or team of students can submit an entry. The work can be done at home or in school but it must be professionally photographed in-school by CityYear and submitted by the art teacher before Nov 22nd. Also, taking candid photos of the creative process will be wonderful too. Once again, the photographs of the art pieces will have to be submitted on or before Nov 20th, 2010 to Ms. Cutelis for review and judging by ZCAF. The winner, first & second runners up will be announced Monday, November 28, 2010. (balloons) All schools submitting will receive Calendar acknowledgment and a special prize. The top three entries will receive invitations and 10 tickets each to the Calendar Gala Event and their photographs displayed with the other artists works at 7:00PM Dec 1, 2010, where the winner will be announced. The winner will have a large mural of their fruit and veggie creation painted in the room of their choice. First and Second runner up will receive trophies and all submitting school will receive a special

prize.

Food Glorious Food, themed Sustainable & Scrumptious, will open at the Embassy Suites Hotel at Chevy Chase Pavilion on Wednesday, December 1, with our Calendar Launch Event and silent auction, emceed by WUSA 9 news anchor Andrea Roane. The art and calendars will remain on display and sale through December.

The Calendars are ordered & A math contest and FREE giveaway to the winner!!

I ordered the 50 calendars this morning!!

Here is a math problem for the kids and a giveaway to the winner. The FIRST Murch family that e-mails me with the correct answer gets a free 16"x20"painting canvas and a brand new flat brush. My e-mail is Miriam.Cutelis@yahoo.com and you must identify in the e-mail the Murch child's full name, grade and teacher. The answer must be written in a full sentence. All math work MUST be done primarily by the child.

Math problem (drum roll please)

Ms. Cutelis got a great deal on the wall calendars for $10 each calendar from Shutterfly.com. She charged each person $18 for each calendar. Tax was $30 total for the entire order and shipping was free. The leftover money will go to International Bird Rescue Research Center as part of our fundraiser. How much money will we donate to the International Bird Rescue Research Center ?

Murch Photo Contest.....due April 25th!!!

Enter in the Earth Day Photo Contest!

For the 40^th anniversary of Earth Daythe Student Blog is sponsoring an Earth Day photo contest. Earthday2010 is Thursday, April 22, and Murch is asking students and parents to walk and bike to school to celebrate Earth Day. What a great way to exercise before another day of DC-CAS testing for third, fourth, and fifth graders!

Walking School Bus

Join one of several Walking School Buses leaving from the following “bus stops” at 8:30 a.m. If you need to get to work, you can drop off your children and the bus captain will bring them to school. Please make sure to email the bus captain if you are joining the bus or dropping off your child.

• Albemarle and Reno, bus captain: Jonathan Davidson [davidsonj3@comcast.net]
• Albemarle and 36th, bus captain: Wendy Gualtieri (wgualtieri@starpower.net)
• Davenport and Linnean, bus captain: Karen Beiley (beileyhut1@starpower.net)
• Harrison and Reno, bus captain: Deanna Jordan Sullivan (deanajordansullivan@gmail.com)
• Chevy Chase Parkway and Reno, bus captain: Stefanie Berger (stefanie.berger@googlemail.com)
• 3841 Fessenden between 39th and 38th, bus captain: Amy Dine (amy_dine@yahoo.com)

Earth Day Photo Contest for Students

The Student Blog is sponsoring an Earth Day http://ww2.earthday.net/earthday2010 photography contest. First, second, and third place winners will receive gift cards to Politics & Prose!

All students are welcome to submit their best photograph that shows what Earth Day means to them. That could be almost anything – nature, people, food, or even pollution – but the photo must convey a strong environmental theme. The deadline for entries is Sunday, April 25.

Members of the Student Blog team will judge photos on composition, content, and environmental theme. Winners will be announced and their photos published on the Murch Web site and in the next edition of Murch Mustang Express. All entries will be featured in a gallery on the Web site as well, but the winners will be featured on the Home page.

Please, digital images only – this is Earth Day, after all, so let’s avoid paper and chemicals! (If you have to borrow your parents’ camera, be sure to get their permission first.)

Contest Rules:

Entries due by Sunday, April 25.

One photo per student.

Entrants must be Murch students.

Photos may be in color or black and white.

Submit digital images via email [mikeheffner@mac.com].

Please include the student’s name, parent contact information, and teacher.

Titles and descriptions may accompany photos but are not required.

Good luck. Start snapping away today!

the email for photo submissions should be sent to
murchpics@202design.com.

BLOSSOMS IN BLOOM Photo Art Contest for Kids Ages 8-16

Oh, what an incredible idea!!!

click HERE to find out more about this opportunity!!

I think every Murch child should do this photo contest....why not? Perhaps we can come up with a weekend time/date in which we can all go to the Mall and photograph these trees as a community. The winner of the photo contest will receive a Corcoran family Membership along with his or her photo featured on the Corcoran Web site.

Makes me think that perhaps we can have our own photo contest here at Murch.....but what could be the theme? Any ideas?

I am basically seeking more "show" opportunities for our children. What most kids liked about the art show back in the late Fall was being able to show their work in a public forum. Do any of you know right off any community-based businesses,restaurants, markets or cafes that would like to showcase our kids' work for a month?

Calling ALL Artists!!- National Zoo Poster Contest

A Murch Parent, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Just sent me information about this zoo poster contest. You can also go here. for more information. I will also see which classes want to do this contest as part of their next unit of study.

Design a Poster for the Zoo!

Kids ages eight to 14—grab your crayons and markers and create a poster for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo! Your poster could be displayed at the Zoo as well as area schools and libraries. Plus, you could win ZooLights tickets and other special prizes.

Flamingos, frogs, and ferrets… all FREE to see!

The National Zoo, home to 2,000 fascinating animals from all over the world, is a national and local treasure. We have a huge park with endangered wildlife, naturalistic exhibits, and beautiful gardens. We’re working hard to educate our visitors about conservation, and to help save endangered species in the wild. But many people don’t know they can visit the Zoo for free!

Your Poster

We need your help to tell people that the Zoo is always free. Design a poster that shows:

• the Zoo is a wonderful place to see animals, trees, and plants,
• does a lot to save wildlife,
• and is always FREE.

Explore our website to learn about our 2,000 animal residents and all the conservation work we do.

Enter today! Complete the entry form and attach it to your drawing, or enter online. Make
sure we receive your entry by November 12, 2009. See complete instructions, judging criteria, and rules below.

How to Enter

1. Find an 8.5 x 11” (minimum) or 11” x 17” (maximum) sheet of paper.
2. Design your poster artwork to include animals and plants found at the National Zoo, along with a message that the National Zoo is free. You may also emphasize the Zoo’s leadership in animal care, science, and conservation, and recommend a visit to the Zoo! Be sure your poster is colorful and special. All mediums will be accepted and you may use any materials you wish to create the design, including paint, pencils, photos, crayons, and markers.
3. If entering by mail, complete the entry form and attach it to your poster design.
4. Entries must be received by November 12, 2009. You may scan your entry and submit it online, or place your entry in an envelope marked “FONZ Poster Contest” and drop it off at the Zoo’s Visitor Center desk between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or mail your entry to:
   
   FONZ Poster Contest
   P.O. Box 37012, MRC 5516
   Washington, DC 20013-7012

What You Could Win

The grand prize package includes:

• Six tickets to Opening Night of ZooLights on December 4
• Recognition from National Zoo officials and a public unveiling of your winning poster
• Winning poster printed and displayed at the National Zoo, and sent to libraries and schools in our region
• Winning poster featured on the National Zoo website and in Smithsonian Zoogoer magazine
• National Zoo-themed gift basket

Rules

TO ENTER: Children ages eight to 14 may enter. Complete the entry form and send it, along with your drawing, to the address above, either by mail or online, or drop it off at the Zoo’s Visitor Center during the hours indicated above. Entries will be accepted by mail, online, or in person beginning October 1, 2009, and no later than November 12, 2009. Multiple entries will be accepted. FONZ and contest sponsors are not responsible for lost or misdirected entries. Children of employees of the National Zoo, FONZ, and contest sponsors, and members of their immediate families, are not eligible to win. No entry fee or purchase is required. Open to legal residents of the 50 states and District of Columbia. Void where prohibited. Contest entries will be judged by National Zoo, FONZ, and sponsor representatives around the week of November 16, 2009. Contest will be judged based on creativity, appeal, and clarity of message(s). Chance of winning depends upon the number of entries received.

The winning design will be printed as a poster to be displayed at the National Zoo. The winning poster will also be sent to area schools and libraries. The winning poster will be the property of FONZ and the National Zoo.

The winner will be notified by phone and/or email on or around November 20, 2009. The winner will receive six tickets to the Opening Night of ZooLights, which will take place on December 4, 2009. Winner and guests will be responsible for transportation to the National Zoo for the Opening Night ceremony; transportation will not be provided. The winner will be honored at the ZooLights Opening Night ceremony and the winning poster will be unveiled to the public and press. The winner will also receive an exclusive National Zoo gift basket. The winning poster will be featured in an issue of Smithsonian Zoogoer magazine, and on the National Zoo website. Prizes are subject to change. No cash substitutions. Taxes on winning prize(s) are the sole responsibility of the winner and not contest sponsors. The winner and his/her family may be interviewed by the press and photos of the winning child and/or family will be taken at the National Zoo. Photos associated with the contest are the property of FONZ and the National Zoo.

BELOW IS A GALLERY OF ZOO POSTERS

FOUND ON GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH.

(THESE IMAGES BELOW ARE NOT CREATED BY MURCH STUDENTS)